Vikings; helmet decorations of
Jul. 23rd, 2003 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coyotegothIt's a measure of how my reading on the Vikings is progressing that I immediately spotted the factual error in this- that being, of course, that Vikings didn't really wear horns on their helmets.
It's this eye for detail that makes me the proofreader I am.o
It's this eye for detail that makes me the proofreader I am.o
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Date: 2003-07-23 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-23 03:12 pm (UTC)Yea there are many things in pop culture that has misled us about other...well...cultures.I read about vikings myself and if you remember bear my mjollir(otherwise known as the hammer of thor) pendant all the time.
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Date: 2003-07-23 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-23 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-23 07:45 pm (UTC)Fact:
Date: 2003-07-24 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-24 06:35 pm (UTC)by the way, what kind of helmets did vikings wear, if they didn't use the ones with horns? and where did the idea of vikings wearing horns come from?
speaking with less archaeological knowledge than I would like. . . .
Date: 2003-07-25 01:44 am (UTC)-Julie